Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is all around us.

Are you thinking about adding artificial intelligence to your organization?
It’s certainly a hot topic and worth the attention.

What is artificial intelligence in simple words?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the ability of a computer program or a machine to think and learn. It is also a field of study which tries to make computers "smart". ... As machines become increasingly capable, mental facilities once thought to require intelligence are removed from the definition.

Definition - What does Artificial Intelligence (AI) mean?

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science that aims to create intelligent machines. It has become an essential part of the technology industry.

Research associated with artificial intelligence is highly technical and specialized. 

The core problems of artificial intelligence include programming computers for certain traits such as:

• Knowledge; Reasoning; Problem solving; Perception; Learning; Planning; Ability to manipulate and move objects

Types of artificial intelligence

There are many types of artificial intelligence some of them are:

• Weak AI- It is a non-sentient machine intelligence, typically focused on a narrow task.
• Strong AI- It is a sentient machine with consciousness and mind.

How does it works?

Machine learning is an application of artificial intelligence (AI) that provides systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from experience without being explicitly programmed. Machine learning focuses on the development of computer programs that can access data and use it learn for themselves.

What is the importance of artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence is the type of coding which are designed and programmed in such a manner that they think and act like a human. Artificial Intelligence becomes an important part of our daily life. Our life is changed by AI because this technology is used in a wide area of day to day services.

What are the advantages of AI?

The greatest advantage of artificial intelligence is that machines do not require sleep or breaks, and are able to function without stopping. They can continuously perform the same task without getting bored or tired. When employed to carry out dangerous tasks, the risk to human health and safety is reduced.

Examples of artificial intelligence use in business

Applications of AI in business management include:

• spam filters 
• smart email categorisation
• voice to text features
• smart personal assistants, such as Siri, Cortana and Google Now
• automated responders and online customer support
• process automation
• sales and business forecasting
• security surveillance
• smart devices that adjust according to behavior
• automated insights, especially for data-driven industries (eg financial services or e-commerce)

AI in e-commerce can be evident in:

• smart searches and relevance features
• personalisation as a service
• product recommendations and purchase predictions
• fraud detection and prevention for online transactions
• dynamic price optimisation based on machine learning

Examples of AI in marketing include:

• recommendations and content curation
• personalisation of news feeds
• pattern and image recognition
• language recognition - to digest unstructured data from customers and sales prospects
• ad targeting and optimised, real-time bidding
• data analysis and customer segmentation
• social semantics and sentiment analysis
• automated web design
• predictive customer service

These are only some of the examples of AI uses in business. With the pace of development increasing, there will likely be much more to come in the near future.

Artificial intelligence in its current form is mostly harmless, but that’s not going to last. Machines are getting smarter and more capable by the minute, leading to concerns that AI will eventually match, and then exceed, human levels of intelligence—a prospect known as artificial superintelligence (ASI).  Agree?

A collection of TED Talks (and more) on the topic of Ai.

https://www.ted.com/topics/ai